diff --git a/tasks/heat_post_install.yml b/tasks/heat_post_install.yml
index 1d4b820..4640022 100644
--- a/tasks/heat_post_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/heat_post_install.yml
@@ -39,9 +39,12 @@
       dest: "/etc/heat/templates/AWS_RDS_DBInstance.yaml"
       config_overrides: "{{ heat_aws_rds_dbinstance_yaml_overrides }}"
       config_type: "yaml"
-    - src: "policy.json.j2"
-      dest: "/etc/heat/policy.json"
-      config_overrides: "{{ heat_policy_overrides }}"
-      config_type: "json"
   notify:
     - Restart heat services
+
+- name: Implement policy.json if there are overrides configured
+  copy:
+    content: "{{ heat_policy_overrides | to_nice_json }}"
+    dest: "/etc/heat/policy.json"
+  when:
+    - heat_policy_overrides != {}
diff --git a/templates/policy.json.j2 b/templates/policy.json.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index fa57861..0000000
--- a/templates/policy.json.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "cloudformation:ListStacks": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:CreateStack": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:DescribeStacks": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:DeleteStack": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:UpdateStack": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:CancelUpdateStack": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:GetTemplate": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:EstimateTemplateCost": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource": "",
-    "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-    "cloudformation:ListStackResources": "rule:deny_stack_user",
-}